PRIEST CRAFT

The priest told us
in meditation class
how to picture Jesus
from Dawson and Loyola
he had wit, this Jesuit
telling us the goal
was to be in God's will,
with understanding,
memory,
and exercising your soul,
he loved
hearing confession
and wrote fearless novels
of cloak and dagger mystery
with great affection
in constant composition
for we all stand at his wall
needing spoken intercession
and heeding his mediation
in our stranded lives
because of our love history,
yet all his definition's
advice was free
or we are AWOL's recreation
after our soul's examination
when in our own soliloquy
we have painted ourselves
into our keen imagination
from a leading colloquy
always in our preparation
by this fourteen sainted station.